Seems to me this galaxy is all but over. It's just mopping up of inactives and defeated players now.... I voted to end a long time ago. The fact that it's a 12 hr galaxy, makes the boring end of a galaxy seem way longer than normal. Do we really need to drag it out?

I am not happy with this. I invested a lot of time in this galaxy and i like to play it. I still have things to acomblish and this i cannot do within 40 ticks. So i would like the galaxy to continoue till tick 600.

I think it's a bit extreme to carry it on this long. None of the other galaxies i've seen and played dragged it out that long after the winner is clear.

Is this just a fame thing? The nr 1 already has 2,5 times the score of nr 2 and 3 and half the planets in the galaxy. As I said it's just mopping up. Even if another war were to develop it is just mopping up and no challenge at all.

Its a great little measurement and not difficult [for a computer] to calculate. In a nutshell it measure how pointy is my graph. Or in other words... to what extent are all the points in the game in the hands of a small number of players.

Basing it off that has the following happy consequences.
1) Fame hoarding is minimized because there is only so many points one player can get before the game ends.
2) Large alliances of bullies must as some point fall apart and turn on each other because if the winning alliance is too large [ie the points are too spread out] the game will never end.

Just tossing that out there for folks to think on

BTW... the reason I originally looked into this was to find a good way to prevent the worst fame hoarding example on record... I actually felt badly: galaxy 34 And yes... that one was worse.
Honestly, I was not actually intending to fame hoard though... I was just seeing what I could accomplish in to 100 turns after it was a forgone conclusion.

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It's nice Gedrin, I like it (being into statistics myself). Not sure if it could replace human discussion in a small community driven game like this, but this would for sure be the way to go in a game with 10 to 100x the amount of players. Erwin wouldn't be able to make the decisions for every galaxy then and an automated process would be a good idea.

Maybe a calculation of Kurtosis could be done within the turn calculation. Not to make the decision, but to let the players know they should think about asking Erwin to end the game. Not everyone has enough feeling for numbers to see where the game is going (or has come to). For those people this could be the way to go.

We do actually have that mechanism, it's called "game progress rate". According to it this galaxy is long decided. However, there is a provision that supersedes the GPR, and that is a galaxy needs to last at least 700 turns. I was burnt too often in the past about galaxies ending too early, that's why I introduced that rule.

So basically if the players want a galaxy to end earlier, there needs to be a public discussion and consensus. Judging from the latest discussion here, I am tending to set the end-turn to 500 for this galaxy.

Originally posted by Erwin [CS]
We do actually have that mechanism, it's called "game progress rate". According to it this galaxy is long decided. However, there is a provision that supersedes the GPR, and that is a galaxy needs to last at least 700 turns. I was burnt too often in the past about galaxies ending too early, that's why I introduced that rule.

So basically if the players want a galaxy to end earlier, there needs to be a public discussion and consensus. Judging from the latest discussion here, I am tending to set the end-turn to 500 for this galaxy.

Its a 12 hour galaxy, either let it run till 600 or end it now. No need to let it run for another 17 days (35 ticks till 500).

Originally posted by Erwin [CS]
We do actually have that mechanism, it's called "game progress rate". According to it this galaxy is long decided. However, there is a provision that supersedes the GPR, and that is a galaxy needs to last at least 700 turns. I was burnt too often in the past about galaxies ending too early, that's why I introduced that rule.

So basically if the players want a galaxy to end earlier, there needs to be a public discussion and consensus. Judging from the latest discussion here, I am tending to set the end-turn to 500 for this galaxy.

Is there any way to persuade you to change that auto-end to 600 or even 500 turns?

The leader doesn't want it to end because, unlike many in my position, I have started to actively resist his takeover of my planets and he's having too good a time at it. That's not to say I'm succeeding, but my strategy is accomplishing what I set out to do.

And even though I'm in the position of others I had been beating in another game when this came up, I'm NOT advocating an early game.

When I signed up, I fully knew it would be 2 turns a day, it's right there in the description. And I could do the math and figure how long 700 turns would take.

I wouldn't mind if the game went until turn 700. I don't care about the fame.

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Originally posted by Erwin [CS]
We do actually have that mechanism, it's called "game progress rate". According to it this galaxy is long decided. However, there is a provision that supersedes the GPR, and that is a galaxy needs to last at least 700 turns. I was burnt too often in the past about galaxies ending too early, that's why I introduced that rule.

So basically if the players want a galaxy to end earlier, there needs to be a public discussion and consensus. Judging from the latest discussion here, I am tending to set the end-turn to 500 for this galaxy.

Is there any way to persuade you to change that auto-end to 600 or even 500 turns?

That is no solution cause its completly depending on game settings how long a galaxy needs to develop. In low research it will take much longer. Let it as it is and keep deciding when it happens.

Its now 3 days and nothing happend. I dont know if it will go on or not or whatever and this really spoils my game. Isnt it possible to get this ended within this extremly long time? How long will it take to make up minds?